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NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree
Washington Times ^ | February 3, 2023 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:38:26 AM PST by Golden Eagle

The National Security Agency is doggedly courting laid-off Big Tech workers as the spy agency undertakes one of its largest hiring surges in the last 30 years. The NSA began privately reaching out to Big Tech employees over LinkedIn last fall, as word spread that major American companies such as Meta and Amazon were bleeding tens of thousands of skilled workers.

NSA talent management senior strategist Christine Parker said the spy agency also saw predictions of more job cuts, and sprung into action.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: techpurge
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Reeks of coordination, especially considering what we have learned was going on at Twitter.
1 posted on 02/04/2023 11:38:26 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

Good way to put hundreds of leftist get into secure areas


2 posted on 02/04/2023 11:42:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Oh goody, more wokness in the national security apparatus


3 posted on 02/04/2023 11:42:33 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Golden Eagle

With NSA’s track record, they shouldn’t be hiring. They should be shuttered.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 11:44:52 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Golden Eagle

Big Tech laid off the dead wood. Losers, or those with skill who didn’t produce.

Perfect government workers.


5 posted on 02/04/2023 11:47:32 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Just who are they going to spy on? eh? the American public, to identify dissenters and to neutralize them.


6 posted on 02/04/2023 11:55:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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Good thing we have a republican congress which is totally in control of budgeting departments and stuff or something


7 posted on 02/04/2023 12:10:44 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: BenLurkin

Leftists and foreigners with no loyalty to the USA.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 12:12:21 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Golden Eagle

bkmk


9 posted on 02/04/2023 12:15:36 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Golden Eagle

You ain’t lying. I don’t trust most of these tech workers or the government. It’s a tyrannical mess!


10 posted on 02/04/2023 12:17:21 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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“Big Tech laid off the dead wood. Losers, or those with skill who didn’t produce.

Perfect government workers.”

Excellent and absolute fact...


11 posted on 02/04/2023 12:20:14 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Golden Eagle

Wooing = bringing them back to headquarters.


12 posted on 02/04/2023 12:30:16 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Golden Eagle

Young commies in NSA by the thousands who’ll never be fired. What could go wrong?


13 posted on 02/04/2023 12:31:21 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Who does the NSA work for?


14 posted on 02/04/2023 12:50:06 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Golden Eagle

When did the Washington Times become so ignorant as to publish enemy propaganda?


15 posted on 02/04/2023 1:07:36 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Golden Eagle

More stupidity.

They have been let go because most were culls. It is called forced ranking. Weeds out low performers and political enemies.

How many are green card holders, chinese, indian and other enemies of the state?


16 posted on 02/04/2023 1:11:52 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Sequoyah101

I say that the NSA, since its inception, has never once proven its been a bona fide source of useful information to the American public. In fact it is a joke. Oh, no? Well, lets see you — or it — prove otherwise.


17 posted on 02/04/2023 1:23:43 PM PST by Bookshelf
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Big Tech laid off the dead wood. Losers, or those with skill who didn’t produce.

So, so true. I watched this kind of thing happen in the aerospace industry in the '70s. Upper management almost prayed for a downturn so they could clean house. Memos trickled down to middle management to start making lists.....

18 posted on 02/04/2023 2:00:30 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: Sequoyah101

Back in the day, you had to be a US citizen to get a clearance, and it was difficult for naturalized citizens to get them.

Standards may be different today.


19 posted on 02/04/2023 2:21:46 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Golden Eagle

Skilled workers we are talking government workers right?.

Moe triple blinks


20 posted on 02/04/2023 3:38:14 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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